Water sales, avo fest make news

Rainbow Municipal Water District news crowded the Avocado
Festival off the top of the front page of the Enterprise edition of
May 19, 1966. "Rainbow faces crisis in record water sales," read
the RMWD headline. Water sales in the district had increased from
April 1965's 274 acre-feet to 1,273 acre-feet in April 1966.
According to the district's manager, mushrooming growth made
essential the passage of a proposed $5.8 million bond issue.

An estimated 10,000 people attended the fourth annual National
Avocado Festival, viewing a parade of more than 130 entries.
Winning first, second and third places, respectively, for their
parade entries were the elaborate float entered by Rainbow
Community; the Westerner Store's old-fashioned wagon with pioneers,
cowboys and Indians as passengers; and a float containing a giant,
7-foot-tall avocado, designed, built and entered by Eadington Fruit
Co.

Local residents Charles Allen, Charles Painter and Dixie Blanton
were injured in a 3:30 a.m. one-vehicle rollover on East Mission at
Red Mountain Ranch road. The pickup truck in which they had been
riding was reported to have been demolished.

Fire destroyed a vacant home on Stewart Canyon Road. California
Department of Forestry and Fallbrook Fire Department trucks
responded to the alarm.

A committee, including Mrs. Dean Miller, Mrs. Herman Brannon,
Mrs. David Ghormley, Mrs. Robert Ingold, Mrs. William Borden and
Mrs. Russell Collins, was planning a membership tea for Fallbrook
Hospital Auxiliary. Pala Mesa Village had been selected as the site
of the event.

The Fallbrook High varsity 880 relay team of Shuichi Konces,
Frank Austin, Bruce Stover and Ken Fremont won the relay event in
the Avocado League finals.

Some 34 students turned out for spring football practice at
Fallbrook High School. Coach Glen Forsythe said 22 to 28 members of
the present squad were expected to graduate in June.

Four graduating seniors of the Class of 1966 of Fallbrook High
School -- Bonnie McTavish, Julie Poling, Judy Officer and David
Cruz -- received scholarships funding their education.

The color film "Bambi" was being accompanied on the screen of
the Mission Theatre with a live-action featurette, "Flash the
Teen-Age Otter." The all-Walt Disney program was booked to run
through Sunday. Advertised as the coming attraction, starting the
following Wednesday, was "The Hill," starring Sean Connery.

A barbershop quartet of Dick Stern, Earl McDougal, Rex Kehler
and Jack Story was photographed entertaining the crowds on
Hawthorne Street following the Avocado Festival parade. Other
festival participants caught by the camera and published on the
back page of the paper included George Ward, Frank Reitenbach, Bob
Gates, Verne Spence, Ed Roe and Jack Halligan.

Contact columnist Betty Johnston at (760) 728-5511 or (760)
451-5009, or at bjohnston@nctimes.com or johnston@nctimes.net.